Hello.
Um, hello.
News, news to kick us off that is relevant to me and not really to you is that the Texas
Book Festival, which is coming up in November.
What?
I said jealous.
Oh.
What did you think I said?
I couldn't tell.
It just sounded like you were hissing at me, like you were trying to speak Parseltongue
or something.
I apologize for the Harry Potter reference.
I apologize that I know the Parseltongue in the movie.
As usual.
Anyway, they announced their author lineup and it's not romance.
It's all books.
So last year there were only a couple of people I was really interested in seeing, but this
year, Ali Hazelwood, Kennedy Ryan, Sajni Patel, Maisie Eddings.
I feel like I might have missed people, but it's a very large list.
So I was just pulling the ones that I recognize.
Alexandra Bracken, which she wrote lore and she's written some other YA stuff.
That's the only one I've read.
And when I was thick in my YA fantasy, I really liked that book.
So that's Stacey Abrams.
I mean, I've never.
That's cool.
I've read her.
I read one of her books from Berkeley that was like re-released.
Interesting.
And I didn't realize it was re-released.
It was an interesting time.
I know she's her most recent one has a really cool cover.
I'm behind it.
So I'm jealous.
It'll be fun.
It was a it's free.
It's just like a big, big close off downtown Austin in front of the Capitol and have like
tents and signings and panels and things.
So I enjoyed when I went last year.
Again, not romance heavy, but they had a panel.
Yeah.
And also, I don't know if you have this issue, but my steamy lit stuff goes to my junk mail.
I don't know why.
So if anyone hasn't like if you went to steamy lit and you didn't get any email, check your
junk mail because it was like information about early bird tickets for people who already
went.
So I was like looking at my junk.
I was like, oh, that's important.
So and I like have added it to my VIP VIP contacts.
But that's weird.
Alas, I know.
So just in case anyone's in that boat and it's only tickets for 2024, which is nice.
I thought they were going to make us buy like 2024 and 2025 at the same time.
I was like, I'd prefer not to.
So we're safe there.
We are safe.
I think that was my only news.
Welcome to romance your TBR.
It's us.
This is going to be a vibes only episode.
Boy, we came up with at the end of recording our last episode, once again, purely out of
the vibe.
And we we took 20 minutes of that episode to just like talk about it.
And then I had to like cut it out.
Yeah.
And so like, you don't know this, but we know this.
So yeah, yeah.
This recorded somewhere.
I feel I should give context.
Yeah, you're going to make to.
Yeah.
You need to start us off.
This is related to Formula One, which if you have listened, I'm sure I have talked about
it before.
However, I promise this episode isn't about Formula One.
It was just the starting point.
There is a like the most successful female race car driver named Danica Patrick.
Danica Patrick is not the most supportive of women in motorsports, which is hilarious.
Because girl, what are you doing?
Like what?
She is not.
Sometimes I have seen points she has made that are valid.
However, sometimes it's like, why do you hate other women?
You know, it'd be like that sometimes.
Anyway, she in some interview, which like there isn't a video of it because it was like
a Sky Sports there, maybe there is a video, but only if you are subscribed to the Sky
Sports, whatever the point is, she did an interview.
And it went not super viral, but it was news in the motorsport community because she said
they asked about it was a young girl, by the way, was doing the interview.
It was like a child interview, and she asked when we would see a woman racing in Formula
One.
And so she started out reasonably.
As I've always said, my whole career, it takes 100 guys to come through to find a good one.
And then it takes 100 girls.
That takes a long time to find a good one, right?
The odds are not in favor of there always being one or being many of them.
Fair enough.
There's just not as many women.
So of course, it's going to take longer.
Then she continues.
And at the end of the day, I think that the nature of the sport is masculine.
It's aggressive.
You have to, you know, handle the car, not only just the car, because that's a skill,
but the mindset that it takes to be really good is something that's not normal in a feminine
mind in a female mind.
You have to be like, for me, I know if somebody tries to bow up or make it difficult on me,
I would go into like an aggressive kill mode, right?
You just want to go after them.
And that's just not a natural feminine thought.
I say that because I've asked my friends about it.
And they're like, yeah, that's not how I think.
And so there's a I can't remember which Formula One podcast it is.
It's the two girls.
Yeah, I was like looking at our transcript from last time.
Okay.
Two girls, one formula has merch that looks like the Barbie movie.
So cute.
And it has aggressive kill mode on it.
And I was like, that's hilarious.
I love aggressive kill mode.
I don't even remember how we got from one to the other.
We started talking about books where character usually heroines, I feel like, because that's
a feminine coded thing in the context of the quote.
But it doesn't have to be a woman go into there.
There are a few men.
Yeah, there are a few men.
I think it's funnier when it's a woman.
But sometimes, yeah, maybe going to be maybe going into aggressive kill mode.
And that's the idea of this episode was born, which is literally just us spitballing books
in which characters go into aggressive kill mode.
And we love it.
It was a great episode at the end of that episode.
So it was a great episode.
Dare I say so myself?
Yeah, at that point, it was like two plus hours.
I was like, bye bye.
I just think it's so bold to say that women can't go into aggressive kill mode.
Like we're here to prove that wrong.
Have you never seen women like ripping each other's hair out and stuff?
What was?
I mean, not me, but.
Oh my God.
Have you seen that video?
I think it was at the Morgan Wallen concert.
It was like going viral on Twitter.
They were at the porta potties.
Oh, yeah.
I never watched the video, but I saw it.
Oh my God.
They were at the porta potties.
And I think this one girl, probably our age, goes into the bathroom and her mom is guarding
the door or something.
I think she cut in line.
I don't know.
And then one lady was like getting aggressive towards the mother and then they like dragged
her into the open porta potti.
And so she was like getting her ass like beat in the porta potti.
The daughter comes out of her porta potti.
She is in this like blue romper and cowboy boots and she goes into aggressive kill mode.
Like that is the pinnacle to me of like real life aggressive kill mode.
Like she the way she pulled the hair, like she ripped two girls out of that porta potti
like she was a fucking Hulk.
Like it was crazy.
And like the one girl was trying to help the mom.
The daughter didn't know.
She just like threw on the ground.
It was it's a wild video.
And you know, I just have to.
I don't know.
The porta potti of it all.
It really it did a number on me.
It was like 3 a.m. and I was watching and I was like, oh, I was not prepared.
So I do recommend watching the video to really get in the spirit.
Well, yeah, of this episode.
Yeah, I think that's correct.
Yeah, like that's the vibe we're going for.
Yeah, like there are like a few books where even if it's not like killing or I mean, there's
not a lot of killing, killing, unfortunately, but where they just like can feel their emotions,
like unreserved, just feeling them.
I think that's a beautiful thing.
And I've read about a few times and I love it every time.
Yes.
Roll on the ground, kick and scream.
Do it for me.
Oh, I love being a woman.
I love being a woman.
The inherent feminine rage, the Olivia Rodrigo of it all.
Oh, yes.
Are we limiting historical romance or we go in all romance here?
What's the honestly?
Here's the issue.
I can't go an episode without talking about Kiss of a Demon King.
So like I'm pro.
Like I only have a few like few in my mind that would be contemporary or elsewhere, but
I think I'm fine with that.
Fine with what?
Doing all of them.
OK.
I think I have something specific.
No, I don't.
OK.
Well, Kiss of a Demon King.
I mean, I feel like, listen, I've only read again up the first few Cressley Cole in that
series.
But yeah, I feel like any Cressley Cole is going to have an aggressive kill mode in it.
She has her own brand of aggressive kill mode.
But yeah, it's kind of like Elizabeth Hoyt.
I feel like all of those books are just aggressive kill mode, like in and of themselves.
Elizabeth Hoyt herself is she.
Yes.
Kill mode.
Exactly.
Like maybe the books, maybe not so much, but her as a writer writing them, she was an aggressive
kill mode.
And that's the definition.
Like there's your definition.
Kiss of a Demon King and Elizabeth Hoyt, the author, and also that girl in a romper fighting
in the porta potty.
Yes, they're all in the bar.
That's the mood board for aggressive kill mode.
Yeah, they're just so prominent in my mind.
So you know.
That's so fair.
I literally am just going to open.
I did no prep for this.
We're going to open Goodreads and we're going to start scrolling on the red shelf.
Yeah.
See what speaks to me, because first and foremost, I read Any Duke in a Storm by Amelie Howard.
Boy, was that woman in kill mode, aggressive kill mode for like most of the book, if I'm
being honest.
But there's a part where she like they're making out.
Oh, this book comes out, by the way, in like January.
So it's going to be a minute.
However, she is undercover as a spy or rather a spy undercover as Bonnie Bess, the feared
pirate captain.
Oh, my God.
It's pirate.
Yeah.
Well, she claims that she's a smuggler, not a pirate.
Well, don't they all?
Yeah, it's giving me my lands off.
It's giving privateer.
And he's also like kind of a pirate is a whole thing.
Anyway, they're making out in an alleyway and they get ganged up on by like eight dudes
or something.
And so they start fighting these guys off, but also like turning each other on at the
same time as they are physically fighting these guys.
She like drags a knife across him and he's like, that's hot.
And I was like, OK, sure.
Now is not really the time you're getting ganged up on by a bunch of dudes who are trying
to kill you.
But I respect it.
She's just in aggressive kill mode for so much of that.
She's blowing things up.
She stabbed a guy in the balls.
Yes.
I'm so excited.
That's it.
That's my first contribution to this.
Beautiful.
Well, I just read one, too.
It was One Dangerous Night by Kathy Maxwell.
And this is one of the ones where she just like felt her emotions for the first time,
like just like let him loose.
Like do you know that Tangled meme where she's like laying in the in the field and he's just
sitting there?
That was the dynamic.
Like she was just going through it like they were on a road trip like she was trying to
escape to Ireland because her sister married the guy that she thought she was in love with.
She was just having a bunch of things.
And I'm like, you are so relatable.
Like I too.
Yeah, because like I then I like in the middle of that one, I went back to read book one
because I had on the audiobook and I was like making bracelets, so I need something to listen
to.
And I wasn't a fan of her really in that book, but because I knew her in the book, too, I
was more of a fan than I would have been.
And so like you could see her get to the point where she got in book two.
And then I was just rooting for her so hard to just like let it all out.
The way she just like there was a scene, she got like stuck in like tree branches and he
like offered to help her.
And she's like, no, I'm going to do it myself.
I'm Miss Independent.
She just like flails bodily for like five minutes, just like kicking and screaming.
He's just watching it.
And she's just like absolutely like little nutty squirrel energy.
Like she's just kicking and screaming and finally gets out and she just like dust herself
off and just keeps on walking.
Like the emotions that she was able to feel in that book, I felt very seen because like
I just feel like I have reacted that way, too.
Even if the sister and the her new husbands were a great match, I'd still feel like, wow,
I would have been better.
So it was great.
It was a really good book.
Also, they were just like aggressively kill mode towards each other.
It was kind of there was a lot of banter and they were not getting along.
I mean, they were in bad circumstances.
They were the only two survivors of a carriage wreck.
They didn't know each other, both disguising their identities.
It was a whole thing.
So that one comes out.
I hope it's not in 2024, but I have a feeling it is.
Oops, let's see.
I mean, the one I recommend, I know, I know.
I'm just like hoping for their sake.
It's not.
Sure.
Let's see.
Oh, March 2024.
Oh, sorry.
Just have it on your have it on your tab.
That's fine.
My next one is an old school.
It's out.
It's been out.
It's out.
It's gentle rogue.
So I'm not going to talk too much about it.
Did you read it?
Oh, yeah, because we have an episode coming up in which I will discuss it at length.
First of all, banger.
Second of all, he is in aggressive kill mode for like the second half of that book, but
not in the way that you expect.
Like it's at her half the time, but not in a scary way.
Like he liked that.
There's a joke where he like, yes, he's mad at her and he's like, well, I'm going to go
beat my wife and everybody is like, what?
You can't do that.
And he's like, I cannot believe y'all believe I would never do that.
Like that was a bit I'm not going to go beat my wife.
Why would I do?
He's just so incapable of expressing any emotions.
And also, he like aggressively fights all five of her brothers and gets forced to marry
her, but kind of on purpose.
Nice.
And he hates her brothers so much.
And they kidnap her away from him after they're already married.
And he shows up at the end of this book and there's like a line of sailors, like preventing
him from getting to her.
And she meanwhile is like, my brother, I would like to go back to my husband, please.
This is not going well.
Can I just, and he's like, no.
And also you can't get to him because there's a line of sailors on this boat preventing
him from getting to us.
And she has a conversation with her brother and he's like fighting them in the background.
But there's like a whole bunch of sailors.
Like he's busy and then all of a sudden she turns around and he's there.
And she's like, how much of that conversation did you hear?
And how did you get here?
And there's like moaning men.
Like he just fought all of them.
This book is giving cinema.
It's giving cinematography.
I am drunk Taylor.
I'm so excited.
Cool.
I don't know why this book was so funny.
That's a good, cause it doesn't, there's no audio book, right?
There is, but I loved every part of the audio book, except the narrator does an atrocious
voice for him.
It's very like, Oh no.
You would hate it so much.
I thought it was like, once I kind of got past that, I thought she did a really, and
like actually she was very funny on the heroine and on the brothers.
So that was enjoyable, but I do think you would find her hero voice atrocious.
Yeah.
Maybe I'll just nestle in, read my.
Well it made me chuckle.
She also was in aggressive kill mode at him for a lot of the book, but also every time
he made out with her, she was like, you know what?
Take me.
And I respect that.
I'm excited.
I like, that's obviously like a very classic cover, but I haven't heard people talk about
it much.
No, it's not what I was.
It's interesting.
Cause I was expecting a bodice rubber.
It's not.
Oh cool.
Well, it's all pretty consensual.
Color me excited.
And also not a lot of violence.
It's mostly like family nonsense and her pretending to be a cabin boy and him pretending not to
know who she is.
And then him fighting her brothers, all five of them.
And then them forcing him to marry her and then locking him in a cellar to await trial
for being a retired pirate.
Why is it so funny?
This book was so funny.
Here is literally, I wrote it down because the funniest thing I have ever heard is her
calling him a pirate and him responding, that's a gentleman pirate love and retired, not that
it matters.
It's giving India Holton.
That really is.
It was so funny.
Why was it so funny?
I can't, I can't.
Wow.
That's a great advertisement.
With her going to find her fiance who disappeared six years ago and finding him.
So nice.
There you go.
Well, there's our ad for romance or TBR next week, the 19th Tuesday.
And you should know listeners what very special holiday we will be celebrating.
I don't think I cut that out.
I think I left that in.
I think I left that in the-
Because if you did, Google's free, but also they should know.
I think I left it in because I was like, we need to know.
You should know what a special day it is.
And it's not her birthday.
If that's not my birthday.
No, this is far more important.
You couldn't Google that.
Maybe.
I'll start a Wikipedia page on you.
Guys, where is our romance or TBR Wikipedia page?
That's so true.
I want people to write wildly inaccurate things.
I'm worth like 1.5 million.
Build me up.
You said something that triggered another book in me.
You said locked.
And when I heard the word locked, I was like, who locks someone in something?
And that brought me to Seduce Me and Sunrise.
And she just locks that man in a fucking closet cabinet thing and is like, what if I set it
on fire?
And then does.
It's basically like, you will stay in there until you tell me what I need to know.
And then she also just didn't want to let him out.
Again, that book, the more I think about it, the more I love it.
Because it wasn't my favorite, but the vibes of her just shoving that weird ass doctor
into like a what would you even call that?
It wasn't like a wardrobe.
A wardrobe.
Yeah.
Into a wardrobe and just setting it on fire.
And he's so cocky.
He doesn't think she's going to do it.
And then she just.
When is not a character who you ever expect to know even have the capacity for aggressive
kill mode.
No.
Because the feminine mind is not limited by this nonsense.
She has two wolves inside her.
One is much smaller or maybe not smaller, but calmer.
But when you incite that wolf.
Absolutely feral.
I just because because he poisons.
What's his name?
Like, look, I don't even remember his name like have.
Was it Kev or was it Cam?
I don't have a lot of.
Oh, wait, Cam was accidentally poisoned, right?
Right.
Wasn't supposed to be kept.
I think it's all coming back.
Yeah, I think you're right.
It's been a hot minute.
I think you're right.
Because Cam was like trying to have sex, I think.
And he just like fell down or something.
I don't know.
Spoilers for.
He didn't finish, guys.
That's the spoiler.
You'll get through.
OK.
Yeah, I just.
I don't know.
Yeah, I just.
What a what a banger of an aggressive kill mode, if I do say so myself.
Just shoves him.
Like, it's just my favorite thing is.
Like just unhinged.
Like you're not actually to commit this act of violence, are you?
And then they just do it.
Like in the gentleman's guide.
No, that's the other one.
The nobleman's guide to something or something blue.
Countrymen secret lies of country, gentlemen.
Wow.
I am.
It took you a minute, but you got it.
It took me so I was like vice and no.
No, there are no many guides to blank and blank.
Yeah.
Guides to blank and blank.
So a nobleman.
No, my God.
The secret lies of country, gentlemen.
I can do it when.
It's not Joss, it's the other one.
I knew it at some point in my life.
Whatever he's like getting his ass whooped a little bit.
And then someone comes in and rescues him and they're like, do you want me to shoot
this guy who was like being really annoying?
And you expect him to kill that guy for you.
Exactly.
And you expect him to say, no, you can't do that.
That's bad.
And he's like, yeah, he's just like, yeah, do it.
And it shakes out a little bit differently, but it's great.
And then it also happens in Prisoner of Love by Beverly Jenkins.
It's a novella.
She had this like horrible ex-husband who was just a dick and he comes back and the
hero is like, do you want me to just like take him outside and show him who's boss?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, I do.
I just love No Remorse, just agree.
You know, so good.
So that's my favorite genre.
I mean, counterpoint to that, Never Cross a Highlander.
Yeah.
Everyone's in aggressive kill mode in that book, first of all.
It's just nothing but aggressive kill mode at all times.
Second of all, we have a classic show Mercy even when he doesn't want to show Mercy, but
she asked him to only for that guy to cause more problems.
And so he has to be dealt with.
And he was, I don't, I mean, he was dealt, everybody, everybody was dealt with.
Yeah, no, everybody was dealt with.
There were knives thrown.
You know, many swords.
So many swords.
That book was so good.
The storytelling.
I was just like sitting staring at my wall.
I was supposed to be cleaning and it wasn't happening.
I was just so caught up.
And then she got her little aggressive kill mode moment.
Because like my one criticism.
That was the knife.
Yeah.
She also got it.
Yeah, because my one criticism for most of the book was that she was saved a lot.
And then I didn't for some reason, I didn't think it was going to happen.
And it happened.
I was like, fuck yeah.
So then the criticism was not criticism anymore because she got to she got to attack and I
liked it.
So hell yeah.
Cool.
What else?
Well, we know an island princess starts a scandal.
Well, you know, that's one.
Yeah, we can't aggressive kill mode.
And hopefully listeners, you've read it by now.
Like what more can we do to tell you to read this?
But if you're not aware, there is that scene at the wedding.
She has her speak now.
She has her aggressive kill mode now moment.
And she just attacks that man jumps on his back, rips his hair out at the wedding.
And it's beautiful.
It really is beautiful.
She really did unlock her inner aggressive kill mode on that one.
Yeah.
And then she just felt other emotions like after that, she was just like a mess.
It was delicious.
Great times were had by your your hosts.
There's another.
There's another Scottish romance I read and I can't remember.
I mean, she's in aggressive kill mode for a lot of this book.
It's never never love a Highlander by Maya Banks.
I think I read that.
I think I read that one.
I'm trying to remember.
Is that the one where I said fuck it five stars because she had a knife or she killed
someone?
No, I'm not seeing your review.
Well, then there's another one that I have.
Is it purple?
No, no, that's.
Let me see.
Well, disregard that.
I'll find the one that I'm thinking of.
No, it's it's red.
It's like dark red.
Never love a Highlander.
I did not read the first two books in the series.
Probably should have read the first two books.
I don't know.
It's like I read the whole series.
Probably should have.
But I didn't.
But it's she apparently has been she she's like the daughter of the head of a clan and
she was supposed to marry the hero from Book One and then didn't and then supposed to
marry the hero from Book Two and then he didn't.
So now she's finally marrying this guy to like create an alliance, but she doesn't really
want to.
I think because she's attracted to him and it scares her classic.
But she's like a warrior herself.
Like she spent a lot of time training, but when she's married, he doesn't want her to
do that anymore, especially when she gets pregnant.
It's a whole thing.
And she's mad about it.
And they fight a lot, but they also bang a lot.
So it's a whole thing.
And I don't remember all of the details, but I think he like gets taken prisoner or something
and she like leads their army to rescue him.
I'm unclear on all the details, except I know she does indeed go into pregnant woman aggressive
mode, which is a whole thing.
I don't know if she's pregnant at that point or if it's earlier when she goes into pregnant
woman aggressive mode, but it's there.
That really is its own thing.
Because I can't remember any of the books, but I feel like there are a few books where
it's normally not like the main book.
It's like the book with the couple after they're featured in it.
And then you'll have the woman be pregnant and then she's just, there's one where the
guy is scared.
It was really good, but I don't remember.
I don't know.
Not I.
What was this book?
Was that really last year?
Oh no.
Well I'm looking at this one now.
A Kiss to Remember by Teresa Medeiros, neither really main character was in aggressive kill
mode, but she has younger siblings and they were aggressively trying to murder him the
entire book because she like was, he has amnesia.
She's pretending that he's her fiance.
And the siblings are like scared that she's going to either like lose herself or like
she doesn't want to marry him or whatever.
And they're just like scared for her.
So it's coming from a place of like good, but the younger brother, he kind of like wises
up a little bit earlier than the younger sister because she like, there were various murder
attempts.
She pushed a gargoyle off of a church, like a big stone gargoyle.
Like he barely got saved.
She poisoned him.
And so this guy has no clue why any of this is happening.
His memory is gone.
He's kind of just there to be sexy and to like help around the house.
My dream.
And like he's just thinking about like wanting to bang her.
He's like, how did we not do this?
Like who was I in this past life?
Like that doesn't seem right.
And then he's also just like murder attempts are happening.
So it was like those kids.
Meddling kids?
Yeah, I love meddling kids.
Speaking of, oh, side characters who go into aggressive kill mode.
I would like to submit basically every Beverly Jenkins where the main characters aren't the
ones who deal with the villain, which is many.
For example, to catch a raven.
There's just like a hint at marital, like the wife doesn't like the husband.
And then at the very end, there's like a casual line thrown in about how she was arrested
for like axe murdering him.
And like, I feel a little bit bad for spoiling it, except that it's literally just like a
casual like, oh, yeah, also that happened.
It's been out for like two years at this point.
I forgot about that.
Because you don't really like her.
You know, they're bad and they're racist and they're so slimy.
That was the best nugget.
Yeah, it just she acts murderous.
There are just so many or like.
God, that was the villains are just somebody ends up in aggressive kill mode.
I talk all this time about which one is it?
I think it's rebel where they they take him out and tie him up and put him in a boat and
are like, it's sinking.
There's a knife in there if you can find it before the gators get you and he doesn't.
He doesn't the gators get him.
What Beverly Jenkins just tweeted the other day?
What did she tweet?
Because it was like Jenkins is also, I feel like, an aggressive kill mode.
Yeah.
What did I retweeted her?
I don't remember.
Oh, out of context, Miss Bev Yale con quote.
This is from her up to my titties and alligators.
So to be in a room of Miss Bev saying that I would have also sold my titties to be to
be in that room.
I mean, yeah.
I just love that vibe.
So she she's forever the icon.
She's forever the moment.
You know, else is always an aggressive kill mode, at least now.
Not so much the earlier books, but the later ones.
Sarah McClain.
Yeah.
I mean, aggressive kill mode all the way.
Yeah, we got to get on.
But Pyrrhenocle Bastards, every person in that series is in aggressive kill mode.
Yes, especially.
Well, not actually not Felicity Faircloth or Faircloth.
But Felicity was, though, she like made that man suffer because she's the first one, right?
Yeah, I loved her.
OK, so she did like.
I don't remember much about that book.
Like there was I think it was a blowjob scene.
I don't know.
She made him suffer.
And I was like because I wasn't like the biggest fan of him.
But she made that book for me.
I was like, you're a queen.
You are so hot.
Well, then everyone in that series is in aggressive kill mode.
But especially Daring and the Duke.
God, what a book.
Well, Ewan's in aggressive kill mode just the entire every time you meet him, you're
like, are you OK? and he's not.
He was attempting to kill someone half the time.
He was not OK.
OK, so the one that I found was Never Seduce a Scott by Maya Banks.
That sounds like what one did you say was the red one?
It was Never Love a Highlander.
OK, so the Never was this.
OK, I don't remember this book.
Let me preface that.
My review is only five stars because Sword and Blood.
I don't I have to.
I don't know.
There was some aggressive kill in there.
I think she actually I think she did.
But I don't know the context.
I don't know anything about that.
But just know that it got shit done.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
I mean, that's all I got for you.
But apparently I had a great time.
What do you need?
Really?
Nothing.
I mean, a sword and blood.
So, you know, sometimes you just got to do it.
You do.
Yeah, you do.
Mm hmm.
What else?
I feel like The Wraithkill of Wrath by Omelie Howard.
I'm just looking at some Omelie Howard one.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like a lot of her books.
Queen Bee.
That's aggressive kill mode the entire time.
And I loved it every minute.
The Beast of Besik also low key.
Oh my.
But she is like her own brand of aggressive kill mode.
Where it's not like over, at least she loses her mind.
She just walks in and is like, I am here to offer to marry you.
And then like, it kind of ruins his life.
Which Omelie is just a force to be reckoned with.
Omelie Howard is also an aggressive kill mode writer.
Yeah.
And a super hot, like sexy sex writer.
None of you were prepared for any Duke in a Storm.
I wasn't prepared for a Duke in question.
There was a line in that book that my jaw hit my chest.
I was like, oh.
It wasn't even like in the context of like erotica or like porn, it wouldn't be crazy.
But in the context of published, like traditionally published romance, I was like, oh my God.
So you have that to look forward to and praise Kate as she said, as she told us she was right.
She did.
She's like, here it's for you.
Merry Christmas.
We said thank you.
Yeah.
I definitely told her that she writes really good sex.
I was like, your books are so hot.
And she's like, thank you.
I'm like, they're so like, I don't.
It's not talked about enough.
Like, they're so hot.
So you heard it here first.
The right kind of Roth.
The heroine like punches another woman.
I don't often condone that kind of violence.
But I do want to be honest, there's one scene in that book that blacked out every other
scene in that book and it involved a blindfold and some ties and a chair.
You know, and that's the only thing I remember from it.
Speaking of ties and a chair, I don't remember much of this, but the rebel in the rake.
I think you're more.
Yeah.
That was an aggressive kill mode edging.
Well, also that whole series deals with like spies.
Yeah.
So there's already aggressive kill mode there.
That also was a lot of edging.
Now that you're tied to this chair, I might as well use this.
And he was like, please do.
And then there's the Bethany Bennett book to the yellow one where aggressive kill mode.
Yeah.
She just sucks his dick until he's on the brink.
And then she just walks out.
And he is so alarmed and turned on.
And so was I.
Hasted him.
She was so, I mean, rightfully so.
So mad at him.
Rightfully so.
It was, oh God, it was great.
I think about that frequently.
Just like the jaw dropping moment of that one.
That really did it.
I think that kind of happened in Wicked and the Wampire.
Let me see.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, you know who else is in both sexual and just general lifestyle aggressive kill
mode at all times?
Lifestyle aggressive kill mode is how, that's how I aspire to be.
It's like a magazine.
Lifestyle aggressive kill mode.
Oh, September edition featuring Willa.
Yeah.
Oh God.
I can't remember their last name.
Ransom.
Oh yeah.
I forgot that his last name is Ransom.
That is also hot.
Oh wait.
His name is, well, Ethan Ransom.
That's from Lisa Klevis.
Oh no, no, no.
Ransom is the guy.
What is her name?
Because the Ransom brothers are the other ones.
Don Kilburn.
Kilburn, yeah.
Is him.
And Willa is a Ransom, right?
It's Ransom, yeah.
Because it's the Ransom brothers.
Okay.
Because Ransom is also the first name and I always get those confused.
Because Dom also had a sister, but she's the last one.
Yeah.
So there was a lot going on there.
Willa lives her life in aggressive kill mode.
So does Dom literally, but.
I saw my friend Maddie today and I told her, because she's read books one and two and she's
like going to read that one.
I'm like, dude, read it.
She listens to this.
So Maddie, this is me telling you again, read that book.
That is all.
There you have it.
And again, like the Wicked and the Wallflower scene, I don't know if it was like revenge
blowjob, but still one of the best oral scenes I've ever read.
So do with that what you will.
What else have we here?
We've got, I mean, you talked about this one when we talked about before, The Perfect Crimes
of Marianne Hayes.
Yeah.
We're entering the I'm just going to shoot someone category because I have a few.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, well, you have one, obviously, we know.
After this one.
So the first one in this great category that I love so much is she just really straight
up murder someone at the beginning of that book.
And I respect it so hard.
You just have to enter aggressive kill mode is the vibe.
And she did deserve at least.
Yeah.
Yep.
The next one, Lord of Scoundrels.
OK, that's what I thought you were.
Yeah.
Well, I think that's not even the most aggressive kill mode moment in that book.
No, no, because the most she also tackling that man to the ground and repeatedly slamming
his head into a door.
She also did that.
Jessica Trent, the woman that you are.
Love of my life.
The woman that you are.
She's not addressing for revenge.
She's dressing for aggressive kill mode.
The funniest thing about her shooting him is that that wasn't even technically her going
into aggressive kill mode.
No.
She very specifically was aiming for his arm.
She knew exactly that was calculated kill mode in terms of like reputation.
I aggressively calculated kill mode.
Yeah.
I just think aggressively badass kill.
Like I just.
I wasn't prepared.
I mean, that that's the whole statement I'm prepared to make.
So true.
I was not prepared.
And then my one to round it out is a season of seduction by Jennifer Haymore.
It is a Christmas one.
So I read it last year, I think.
And listen, it wasn't a book that I was like vibing with because he was there was a lot
of lying and stuff.
He was not a great guy for the first half.
But that was taken care of when she shot him.
So honestly, respect because he was like trying to marry her for her money.
I mean, he was doing it for, I guess, noble ish reasons.
But in her shoes, they were not noble.
And so she like he like had her ruins like he scheduled her brother to come in when he
was in the room with her.
And so when she found that out, she got a gun and literally shot him.
And he was like pretty close to dying.
And he has a bunch of legs.
Is that a quote?
Yes.
OK.
I don't know what it's from.
I only know it from Tik Tok.
Cool.
I was like, do you know?
It's like what?
It's the sound.
I need to buy a gun.
I mean, yes, I am scared of loud noises.
So this is my living by carelessly shelf.
But yeah, she just like shot him and was still angry at him for a lot of the book.
And he had to grovel and be like, honestly, you were right to shoot me.
So getting any man to admit that you were right to do that is just a really baller move.
So again, not the best book, but I did give it four stars.
One star was solely for that.
You know, like it turned out to be a pretty good book.
Like once you got to the 50 percent mark.
So, yeah, I will probably read it again, because honestly, why not?
Tis the season for aggressive kill mode.
I would argue that every India Holton heroine is into aggressive kill mode.
I didn't write any of them.
I just wrote India Holton.
I think her heroines more so.
I think Daniel Bixby is the one that comes the closest of the men.
Yeah.
Because I think Alex and Ned are just so relaxed that it's hard for them to go full on aggressive
kill mode.
And then Charlotte, I'd say, would be the one who gets to feel all of our emotions at
the end.
Like she gets to kind of let loose and just kind of fuck everything up for a little bit.
Because her whole thing is like controlling and like repressing and all of that.
Suppressing.
And yeah, Daniel, he's got a tiger within.
Boy does it roar aggressively.
So true.
I love him.
And I guess another guy with a tiger within him, Westcliff.
Also Daniel Bixby.
No, sorry.
Alice has to fight a literal tiger.
She has to escape a tiger.
Sorry.
Yes.
Who did you?
Oh, Westcliff.
Yeah.
Aggressive kill mode is the defining factor at the end of It Happened One Autumn.
And then once Lillian is pregnant, he also goes into aggressive find me the fucking doctor
mode or I will aggressively kill you mode.
So God, that fight between him and Sebastian was just hilarious.
That single handedly made the book for me.
It's giving movie.
It's giving cinematography.
I've got another sexual aggressive kill mode, and that is Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale.
He is so dark and dangerous and assassin Pyro mysterious and she is so sheltered.
And the minute they start banging, suddenly it gets real kinky.
And she is so dominant and he is so submissive.
And she at one point like ties him to the wall and is like edging him.
She like rakes her nails down his dick at one point.
There is just a lot happening.
This is also the one that is all from her or not from her.
It's still a third person.
But all of the chapters are from her POV because he's so silent and secretive and mysterious.
And then in that scene, like 17 chapters in, when she like ties him to the wall and is
being very dominant, it suddenly switches to his POV and I ate it up.
That reminds me of what was the Sophie Jordan one?
The rake gets ravished.
The first like 60 pages are just from her POV because her brother has gambled away basically
all their money.
She's worried about him doing other things.
So she has to go and get back the deed to their house because he gambled that away as
well.
And I mean, she was lucky that he gambled it away to a super hot gambling den owner.
Like if he's going to gamble it away to someone, he's got to be vrara and have washboard abs.
I mean, that's just, you know, prerequisites.
Exactly.
And so she goes there in disguise.
She really is just trying to get him alone, kind of kiss him up a little bit and distract
him so she can steal the deed.
Well, it gets to a point where she's got two paths to take.
Robert Frost would be quaking.
One is to exit out of his bedroom door and just go home and have no house.
The other is to go home and have no house.
The other is to lose her virginity by acting like an experienced woman on top.
This man was not prepared.
I wasn't prepared.
She you know, it uses the I read about sex in books, so I'm very skilled.
I don't care.
It's a banger.
It's a banger trope.
Fight me.
And so she just really says fuck it and just rides that dick like crazy.
And he is so like because at first he's like, yeah, I'm not like you're not my type.
You can leave.
And then she's like, well, that was rude.
OK, I'll just go to a no house.
And then she like turns around and has a whole little speech.
And he's like, honestly, OK.
And so, yeah, he doesn't know she's a virgin until like the next morning and she's gone.
She left a note.
She's like, sorry, I took it.
And he's like, what the fuck?
So she was a bad thief, but great ravisher.
Honestly, what we all aspire to be, great ravisher.
My Yelp review five stars.
He was just so blown away because then he like saw the virgins, but he was like, what
the fuck happened?
Nobody feels so inclined to leave us a five star review, by the way.
I would love for that to be the review that you leave.
Bad thieves, but great ravisher.
Honestly going on my LinkedIn.
I got to put it out there.
Yeah.
So the rest of the book is them like having like a no sex pack basically.
Yeah.
But the first so like the first like chunk of that book, you're not in his POV.
So you're just in hers, absolutely going to town on him.
And it's wild.
Yeah, that I was just not prepared because it was so hot.
It was so hot.
No notes, really.
Fair enough.
That's a good cover, too.
I have.
Possibly my only non-historical romance contribution to this.
I can't guarantee it because who knows what's to come.
I don't know.
Thoughts just vibes.
However, Jude Duarte is perhaps.
I know that's not a romance series.
It's a YA fantasy series, but the romance is it imprinted on me enough that it lives
in that section of my brain.
Yeah.
And I think I write it for the romance.
So yeah, I mean, I did.
I agree that it's.
I never recommend it just for the.
I have to be like it is political intrigue, but also that was a great romance.
I do think it's a fantasy series that appeals to romance readers as long as they know that
the romance is the B plot and not.
The main plot anyway, Jude Duarte is the most.
She also lives her life in aggressive kill mode in the truest sense of the term.
Oh, she is so scary.
I love her so much.
So does garden.
As he should.
I was so confused in that first book.
I was like, what is happening?
Why am I into it?
I was also and then because then you get the ropes, you know, as it goes along.
Yeah.
But wow.
I mean, it starts off with like crazy murder.
Yeah, like sure.
It is.
Yeah.
I'm not going to that.
That scene.
Nothing but aggressive kill mode.
She is in fact so aggressive kill mode, the hospitality of knives.
But in the follow up series, the the Stolen Heir, the second book isn't out yet, but in
the Stolen Heir, you don't see Jude and Carden, but it's about Oak, who's like her little
half brother or not half brother, but adopted brother basically.
And another.
She also, let's be honest, is an aggressive kill mode, Surin.
But not to the extent that Jude is.
She's like feral.
Jude is calculated and will like mess up your life.
Yeah.
She's like, oh, you're feral and has little knife teeth and will bite you.
So there's that.
Anyway, Jude is so aggressive kill mode that even though Carden is the king, like and he's
the one that was part of the Greenbrier line and Jude is a human that married into it.
Whenever other characters in this spinoff series talk about them, they'll be like, oh,
oh, like your sister.
Is she going to want to hear about what you're doing?
Oh, the queen.
Yeah.
Carden's also there.
You know who we're concerned with, though?
The queen is Jude.
That's what we're worried about.
Yeah.
Carden is just there for the vibes.
He's like, I didn't even really want to be here.
You can deal with my wife.
Oh, she's so aggressive kill mode and I love her so much.
God, I love that woman and that series.
Great.
Great vibes.
Well, the one, I guess, other non contemporary.
This one was coming up a lot at Steamy Lit.
It was Sweet Vengeance by Viano Nanaimo.
What a banger book.
On the author's website, there's a list of trigger warnings, so definitely check that
out because it's rife with them.
But basically, all the book is that she summons a demon.
He's a virgin, by the way, so that adds another level of aggressiveness from my perspective.
So she summons a demon and she's basically like, I will sell my soul basically to murder
this guy who abused me.
And they spend the entire book having sex and when they're not having sex, stalking
this guy and popping up randomly because he can make her invisible.
So she'll pop up in front of his car and then he'll make her invisible again.
And then she's making this guy go insane.
And then finally she just murders him.
And it really was cathartic.
That's the most aggressive Kill Mo book that I've read.
Where it's just straight up so good and it's so hot.
And I hope, oh yeah, it says right here, Sweet Demons number one.
So there's going to be more.
I'm prepared.
I mean, I'm not, but I am.
So that one, it was wrecked a lot by different authors at Steamy Lit.
And I agree.
It should be.
And the cover is good.
10 out of 10.
Well, there you have it.
I am scrolling.
I haven't found any in a while.
True aggressive Kill Mode.
Yeah, I've got the Marquis Makes His Move.
She had her little aggressive Kill Mode moment when she got to just hurl China in plates
at her terrible husband.
Just by diannequincy, if you don't know.
Yeah, it is a classic.
And she just really has no room for being nice and forgiving and just goes a little
feral.
And I adored her for it.
I mean, it really do be like that sometimes.
Because I too, she went through a lot of shit.
And I too would have gone feral.
Can't argue with that.
Another author who is just perpetually in aggressive Kill Mode is Lindsay Sands.
I haven't read a lot, but her Highlander ones, the amount of concussions.
She is in aggressive Kill Mode towards her characters, like her main characters.
She does everything in her ability to get them at the brink of death.
Fair enough.
Honestly, she really loves pain and suffering and inflicting them on her poor characters.
What is this one?
I think this one's by her.
An English bride.
Yeah, an English bride in Scotland.
The amount of concussions on concussions on concussions on arrow wounds on stab wounds.
Like everything under the sun, like if there was a dinosaur, she'd write it in there and
have it stomp on him.
Like she just goes so hard.
And at that point, you're just like, wow, how are like their heads?
How are they not like squashed right now?
Like jelly?
I don't know.
How are you alive?
Asking that a lot, honestly, reading her books.
The one more recent one that I read was in this Highland Bride series.
And it starts with the hero having an arrow wound, a fresh arrow wound.
And then it starts with a heroine narrowly escaping, like a rival clan, like abusing
her and they like beat her up.
And it was a whole thing.
And I was like, whoa.
And so then he like tackles her because he thinks she's a little boy because she like
flees out her window and then she doesn't have any clothes on.
And so then she steals his plaid when he's swimming and then he's like, hey, little boy,
that's bad.
So then he chases her and he tackles her and he's like, you're not a little boy.
And then she's now got another head wound.
And then so she and so then he's like, you're not a little boy.
So then she pretends to have amnesia.
My favorite trope.
You're not a little boy because you're so tiny.
And he's like, what?
And so then he's like, well, I want to tackle you.
But we're here now.
And so then she pretends to have amnesia because she doesn't know if he is like affiliated
with the clan that she just escaped.
And so he's like the giant cinnamon roll once he's not like tackling her.
Sure.
But like he has like split his wounds like 10 million times in that book.
She is like battered beyond recognition for a lot of it and a lot of head wounds because
of him on accident.
There's just a lot happening.
And so like every Lindsey Sam book is especially her Highlander ones.
I don't know about her other ones, but prepare to want to go get someone a bandaid.
Not that's going to do much, but I made it with my tears.
Here you go.
That.
Yeah, she's she's in aggressive kill mode in that Highlander Highland Bride series.
So wow.
I've officially run out of books.
I cannot think of any more.
I will leave one final aggressive kill mode author, not because the characters in her
books are really in my experience.
I mean, I've only read a few of her books so far.
The characters don't really do a ton of aggressive kill mode.
But she is in aggressive kill mode on my emotional state at all times.
And that is Sherry Thomas.
Sherry Thomas in almost every book of hers that I've read, there's one that I DNF because
I'm going to go back and try it again at some point, but it did not work for me when I tried
it.
But every other Sherry Thomas I have ever read just is like an assault on my emotional
well-being for three to four hundred pages.
It's kind of like what if I just made these characters go through so much emotional turmoil
and just hurt you in every way that I could.
And it is fantastic.
But also I'm in pain.
But I thank God for it.
Yeah, I think we talked about private arrangements when we...
I was just in constant pain.
Ravishing the heiress.
Nothing has ever hurt me for that sustained amount of time the way that that book did.
She was like, oh, you thought pining was like a cute...
I'm going to make it hurt so bad.
You are going to be in agony for this poor woman.
Plot twist.
John Cougar Mellon Camp wrote, it hurt so good about Sherry Thomas.
I wouldn't doubt it, frankly.
Don't.
It's actually a fact.
Wikipedia.
You heard it here first.
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't...
Honestly, I feel like this one Kate Bateman book.
I feel like Kate Bateman is on the cusp of entering her aggressive Killmudd era.
Fair enough.
She's just got some kooky fun plots.
But this one, The Princess and the Rogue.
I want to read that.
Yeah.
All of her books are great.
I have not enjoyed any of them.
But this one.
So from the title, she is a princess.
He is a rogue.
What?
I don't know.
Boiler alert.
I know.
I am terrible.
And again, I love when the one character doesn't know that the other character is a virgin.
And then it's some dramatic reveal and you're like, they're like, whoa, my God, I cannot
believe it.
Boy, are you going to love Gentle Rogue?
I'm just kidding.
It's not a dramatic reveal, but it's kind of a humorous one.
Well, any kind of reveal is great.
I read one.
I just read it, but I'm forgetting it.
Who knows?
Not me.
But the quote from this one, this is the hero, whatever his name was, saying, speaking right
now.
He said, Christ alive.
I don't bed virgins ever.
I bed wenches, actresses, widows, tarts.
And then her eyes widened at that, but she lifted her chin in that haughty way he should
have realized came from a lifetime of privilege.
This is from her.
Well, now you fucked a woman who outranks you.
Congratulations.
And then she just leaves.
And it has stuck upon me like a little sea urchin or like some weird thing on like a
whale.
I'm a piece of algae on a whale or on the whale.
That's the algae.
Who knows?
I don't know.
It comes with me through the good days, the bad days, the days I just want to sleep, the
days where I'm running errands.
I just think about her and he was so shocked and it was great.
I mean, I would be frankly.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Yeah.
And I think that that really rounds it out.
I agree.
So if you listener know of any books that have aggressive kill mode moments.
Oh, wait, no, I lied.
Oh my God.
Fucking Sky O'Malley.
That book is aggressive kill mode all the way through.
Yeah, I was aggressively killed.
Yeah.
No, but that one that one's definitely aggressive kill mode.
I feel like they all kind of want to kill each other at multiple moments aggressively.
I lied.
The Bachelor Bargain by Madison Michaels is my last one.
The hero.
He may actually be a villain.
Like, you know, he's done a lot of things and he goes into detail about the things that
he's done.
And frankly, it's alarming, but also it turns you on.
And so like, you know, there's not much more to say.
That man, he's done some shit.
I mean, so it was charming Mickey.
I'm looking at you.
Charming Mickey.
Charming the pants right off of me.
But no, the Madison Michaels one, I don't quite know what she was unleashing in that
book, but that hero was like the baddest kingpin.
I don't even like some of these like historical romance heroes are like their rakes.
They just kind of give like off like a fake.
But he probably would have worn someone's skin as a suit if he needed to.
Like if he needed to really make someone suffer, he would have went for it.
The things he did to one man in particular.
And then he like the way that he had that man like then like indebted to it, you know,
read that book, find out for yourself.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
I. I've never really read.
I mean, I guess in some of these bias rippers, but like most heroes, they're like secret
trauma or like their secret bad thing is that they like got into a bar fight or almost did
something bad or like lost money or gambling or something.
This man, active crimes.
But like I endorse them.
So fair enough.
Yeah.
That.
That's me.
I have nothing more to add.
No.
I mean, there you have it.
Your aggressive kill mode, extensive starter pack, not even just a starter pack.
We've given you more than enough.
Your finishing pack.
Smile.
A pack a day.
That would be an impressive pack a day.
That would be a lot of books in a day.
Yeah.
And a lot of like a highly like adrenaline fueling like moments.
So yeah.
Go forth and read about people in aggressive kill mode.
Mm hmm.
Maybe you're going out into your own life.
No, no.
You do whatever you want.
Live.
Yeah, do that.
Yep.
That's all I got.
Yeah, nothing else.
To recap, we've got the secret holiday that you should know.
Talk the pirate day.
It's not a secret if you tell them.
I know.
Just kidding.
It is in fact international talk like a pirate day.
September 19th every year.
It's a great day.
Every year.
The way you said that was so Schmidt coded.
You.
I can't tell if Schmidt would love talk like a pirate day.
Actually no.
No.
Jessica May would love talk like a pirate day.
Schmidt would fucking hate it.
He would hate it so much.
He would however do some weird pirate role play.
Yeah he would.
He would take advantage of that.
At any rate, it's talk like a pirate day coming up on Tuesday which means boy will we be coming
at you with some pirate romance discussions.
I also have a book where the guy has an eye patch and I don't even know if he's a pirate.
I kind of want to read it.
I mean that's like as much of a pirate as you can be.
Is it one eyed dukes are?
No but that's another one.
Thank you for adding that to my list.
That's Megan Frampton.
This one is an older.
I can't remember the rest of the title.
One eyed dukes are wild or something.
Yeah.
There's.
Which is an insane title by the way.
That is an insane thing to name a book.
One eyed dukes are wild.
And that man is on the cover with an eye patch.
Who allowed that title?
My hero.
Fair enough.
There's a Minerva Spencer I think that also has a guy with an eye patch.
But there's this one.
They're on like a body of water and it's a really cool cover and he has an eye patch.
I saw it when I was like reorganizing my shelves so I find it.
But yeah I'll be reading Gentle Rogue.
I mean pirate and pirate adjacent romances.
I kind of read one today.
He was like pirate adjacent.
I love a pirate adjacent romance.
Gentle Rogue.
I thought it was a pirate romance.
Really it's pirate, well retired pirate, pirate adjacent.
He doesn't do any pirating.
But they are on a boat for part of it.
And he was imprisoned for former pirating.
Well he was locked in their cellar.
I wouldn't go so far as to say imprisoned.
Imprisoned in their cellar.
Imprisoned in the wardrobe.
Set fire to the wardrobe.
Yeah so that's happening on the 19th.
And then the rake by Mary, I know, the rake by Mary Jo Putney is on that Friday, whatever
day that is.
So lots of things coming at you.
Yeah lots of things coming at you indeed.
So nothing else really.
Read some pirate romance so you can feel like you're part of that ride.
Or read the rake.
I have no clue.
I've never, I don't really hear people talk about that one.
I don't know anything about it.
It's a little bit later in the 90s so I'm a little cautious, a little optimistic.
I just can't be, like I need to be a little bit cautious or else I'll get hurt again.
So you get some armor.
Yeah I hope you enjoyed that.
That's our aggressive kill mode.
Yeah get your eye patches and peg legs ready.
Strap in for some true aggressive kill mode.
Pirate romance is coming at you.
In just a few days by the time this goes out.
It really is just a few days.
Too few of days if I'm being honest.
I feel like I want to read a lot and that's not that many days.
So just do your best.
Guys there's a, I don't think I'll have it read in time because I have a bunch of other
ones that have audiobooks and I'm going to prioritize those and this one doesn't have
it but I did find a Teresa Madero's pirate romance.
Where it's one of the, because it's older and so it's like got kind of a vague description
and I didn't look any further into it.
But it basically was, it seems like she was kidnapped by a pirate and he didn't do anything
to her and then let go and then at some point she, I don't remember if he's like a bodyguard
or something but she comes back and she's like attracted to him.
She doesn't know what's going on.
Whatever the pirate's name is apparently Captain Doom.
Her books really don't have audiobooks which is a shame.
Captain Doom.
I'm going to see if I can find it because I can't remember what the name of it was.
It's one of those ones that has like kind of a beachy look and cover but it's not a
whisper of roses.
It's thief of hearts.
Oh this one has way more of a description.
Hang on.
Is it?
Yeah from the storm-lashed decks of a pirate schooner to the elegant grounds of an English
estate comes a spellbinding tale of love and deception.
As the only remark, nope.
Okay there we go.
An innocent beauty prim and pampered loose into snow knew little of men and nothing of
danger until the fog shrouded night she found herself abducted and at the mercy of the legendary
Captain Doom.
Ruthless and mocking, tender and virile, the notorious pirate awakened all Lucy's passionate
longings then abandoned her with nothing but a kiss.
Now safely at home the alluring waif is tormented by treacherous memories and by the presence
of Gerard Claremont, her mysterious new bodyguard.
Nothing about him from his forbidding size to his impertinent manner sparks her defiance
and even when Gerard's smile turns seductive no one can make her forget Doom.
Yet only when Lucy's path crosses the Captain's once more will she learn who is on a voyage
of retribution and who is out to steal her heart.
Bro.
That plays into one of my favorite tropes which is a subset of the mistaken or hidden
identity trope which is...
The person, so one is disguising their identity and the other person that doesn't know doesn't
think that they can be together because of the status or like the fake identity.
But little do they know that we know that this person is actually the perfect person
for them, like they're perfectly suited because it's a fake identity and the real identity
is perfect.
And so like that's my favorite.
I put it in a review.
It's my dramatic irony because like nothing is better than two characters.
This happened in the Kathy Maxwell that I just read.
Nothing is better than them thinking that they cannot be together because they were
both hiding their identities.
So like they were so upset and gutted and then it's kind of just like, oh, and then
other things happen.
Like I love that so much happens in Love Letters from a Duke by Elizabeth Boyle.
She wants a Duke so badly and then her footman is really hot and she's like, really?
How do I...
Like how have I failed myself being attracted to him when I need a Duke?
He's actually a Duke, guys.
Don't worry.
So it's so good.
So Thief of Hearts, that compels me.
I mean...
Right from the get go, Captain Doom really got me.
I don't know if I'll have time to read that one because again, I have several others,
but...
Honestly, I may do that.
I think I kind of...
Go forth.
I'm missing my library has it because honestly, Theresa Madero's slaps...
I have it on Libby so it may be on...
I don't know which library card, but it's worth checking.
She wrote the After Midnight and The Vampire Who Loved Me and she also wrote A Kiss to
Remember.
And then Dani from Overflowing Shelves, she wrote a Western that's pre-2000 so we need
to read that for next season because she said it was a really great historical Western,
which scare me a little bit.
So if I've gotten endorsement, I am way more willing.
Let me see what it was called.
She just did a step back review for it.
Nobody's Darling by Theresa Madero.
I want to read that really bad.
So stay tuned if we end up experiencing Captain Doom.
That Mocking, Tender, and Virile.
Alluring Wave.
That's going in my bio if I had room.
Alluring Wave, tormented by treacherous men.
The more campy a book description sounds, like a historical romance description sounds,
the more I'm like, yeah, honestly sign me up.
That's why I started reading.
That's why I got a bunch of them from the thrift store before I even read them because
I was reading the summaries and I was like, these sound like a really good time.
And they are.
What was it?
Nothing hits like Mocking, Tender, and Virile.
What a combination.
Mocking, Tender, and Virile men and their alluring waves.
Captain Doom.
Wow.
Okay.
Yes.
You guys underestimate, I feel like, my love.
No one's ever told me to my face, but I feel like you guys underestimate my sheer love
of Talk Like a Pirate Day.
I feel like that's probably accurate.
I feel like I did.
It's just so fun.
You know what?
We'll talk about it in the next.
I was gonna say, because there's a, you can get free things on Talk Like a Pirate.
Yeah, they used to do more.
It's fewer and fewer places have been doing it.
So now it's only like, I don't know, like Long John Silver's and something.
The War Against Talk Like a Pirate Day.
What is going on?
Get your swords.
Krispy Kreme used to go and give out like a dozen donuts if you showed up dressed as
a pirate.
What if you just do and scare them into giving you donuts?
So I was talking to Estelle today and we were talking, cause she was like, oh, Talk Like
a Pirate Day is coming up because I mentioned Gentle Rogue and I was like, thank you for
remembering.
Yes, it is.
And we were talking about like Forever Only has a few pirate books and she wishes they
had more.
And she talked about working for, I don't remember who, but a different publisher and
they had a book.
I can't remember.
I think maybe it was like a children's book or something called The Pizza Pirate.
And we ended up like spitballing back and forth and accidentally I came up with a genius
idea for a romance.
And it's a time travel romance where she works at a pizza place called Pizza Pirate and ends
up somehow getting like Outlander style sucked back in time.
But because of her uniform, they think she's a pirate.
And then romance ensues.
That's it.
That's as far as I got.
The way that I would read The Pizza Pirate so quick, like guys, this is going to be my
debut romance novel because he's got pepperoni and an eye patch and a big dick.
He's got the sausage.
Can he be Italian so it can be Italian sausage?
Mamma mia.
He says that.
Never mind.
Oh, God.
Well, Italian sausage.
If you listen to our pirate episode, we'll count each listen as a vote for Caroline to
write that book.
I cannot wait.
Look out for my debut romance, The Pizza Pirate.
That's so much fun.
Meat Lover Special.
Wow.
It's so suited.
It just writes itself basically.
It really does.
Oh, OK.
We are over time.
Not that we've ever had a time limit that we've actually used ever.
Not as time when there are pirates and pizza.
We really treated them with that little preview.
Yeah.
Pirate for Tuesday's episode.
We really did.
You're welcome.
You're so welcome.
Also, you are welcome for my creative genius.
I'm in awe sitting here.
Up to my titties and alligators.
That's a mic drop.
Boom.